Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg

They would both have been equally dad metal/rock albums, but whereas the "I Disappear" album would probably have been the worst album in the hypothetical Load/Reload/Rereload trilogy, at least St. Anger is an interesting failure that doesn't sound like any other album I can think of. At least Metallica were out of touch while also reaching for something where we can look at their artistic intent that was legitimate artistic intent rather than just casting it off as the next album that sounded like the albums before it.

I can discuss St. Anger and appreciate both what went wrong and what went right (and yeah things did go right), but the album you're talking about would have flown by my head just like the next Megadeth album.